PhD opportunity at the University of Oxford. The Morelli scholarship funds a doctoral student to work with me on on democratic backsliding, strategies of democratic defense and regeneration, or the rise of illiberalism. Deadline Jan 9. More information at users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0073/

Congratulations to @ailitripp.bsky.social for her new book, Why African Autocracies Promote Women as Leaders (OUP, 2025). Learn more about this important scholarship in our latest blog post: www.afpol.org/blog/new-boo...

It's Election Time! Please vote for your new APCG officers. Voting will remain open through Monday, December 15, 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time. www.afpol.org/blog/apcg-of...

Very interesting paper on the rise of design-based empirical work in political science. No surprises: Survey experiments have surged to 45% of designed-based publications, which are highly concentrated in top journals & institutions.

🚨Call for Papers ⬇️ Join us in Kraków

Heading to ASA in Atlanta? Join APCG for our business meeting, social, and panels! 🎉 Full details here: www.afpol.org/blog/african...

NEW - How to Distinguish Human Error From Election Fraud: Evidence From the 2019 Malawi Election - https://cup.org/47pxPnc - Johan Ahlbäck & @ryanjablonski.bsky.social #OpenAccess

This year’s call for applications for the Prize Post Doctoral Fellowships in Politics at Nuffield College is now live! It’s a fantastic opportunity for newly minted PhDs to spend three years in a wonderful academic environment: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...

🚨🚨 Final call! Propose a panel for the Law & Courts section at ECPR 2026 (Kraków 🇵🇱, 8–11 Sept). Submit by 31 Oct: 👉 Short title 👉 ≤80-word abstract 👉 1–2 co-chairs + ECPR emails 📧 Send your proposal to: [email protected] & [email protected] @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social

Grad students in political science and other social sciences! Consider applying to the great 2-week summer program in Qualitative and Multi-Method Research at Syracuse. Info is here: www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...

TODAY: Join the APCG Online Colloquium!

We’re the party of the family. But we’ll deport your spouse for claiming child benefit. We’re the party of traditional values. But we’ll deport you if you become a stay-at-home parent. We’re the party for pensioners. But we’ll deport you if you retire on less than 150% of average pensioner income.

Paper alert 🚨 Researching national narratives and democratic processes? Check out this new article from @eunajo.bsky.social

Heading to APSA in Vancouver? Join APCG for our business meeting, social, and panels! 🎉 Full details here: www.afpol.org/blog/apcg-sc...

Deprived places like Hull are deliberately pushed into further economic decline for what? So that Labour can point to a graph showing reduced net migration? And they expect that this will weaken Farage? www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Great opportunity to present working papers on any topic related to African politics!

This is a great opportunity for ECRs in the social sciences (and beyond): www.writersandartists.co.uk/Bloomsbury-A...

New Book Alert 🚨 In a new blog post, Ato Kwamena Onoma presents his new book: The Undulating Capacity of the State. www.afpol.org/blog/new-boo...

📢 Today at 3:45 PM: Join our panel on democratic self-defense. We’ll bring together perspectives from Africa, Brazil, the Post-Soviet states, Western Europe & the U.S. Don’t miss this conversation. #ecprgc25

Submit to the Junior Law and Politics Research Community by today to be considered for our fall seminar series on zoom!

The YouTube video of my TEDxVitoria Gasteiz talk on the far right was released on the TEDx channel as an 'Editors' pick' 24 hours ago. It has 16,000 views and many comments, some nice, many hateful. My favourite: 'she is a paid actor'. I'll take it as a compliment! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCvr...

The Junior Law and Politics Research online seminar is back this fall! A supportive space for junior scholars to share work + get feedback. Bullet talks & panels on Zoom. Deadline to submit is Aug 25. Message me if you have questions! forms.gle/yF7uVXcvDnGc... @sivcheruvu.bsky.social

This is a MAJOR development for European Political Science. Thanks & congratulations to those who made it happen, @sarahobolt.bsky.social, @simonhix.bsky.social, the rest of the Council and many others. Time for us to support it in every way we can: SPREAD the word, JOIN the list and EPSS, Donate.

The Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York is offering one scholarship worth £7,300 for the 2025/26 academic year. Deadline: 15 August 2025, 23:59 BST. Find out more and apply 👇 www.york.ac.uk/cahr/news/20...

Do profs respond to student evaluations? On average? Nope. Those who have a more positive view of their own teaching do. But all of these responses are driven by the female teachers. "Male teachers appear to be unresponsive to student feedback." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Working on Gender-Based Violence? Fantastic new paper from a great colleague @drharrietgray.bsky.social

⏰ Great opportunity for PhD students!

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Comparative politics #ECPRMemberJobs 🔍 A focus on Central and Eastern Africa 🏫 @giga-hamburg.de ⌛ Monday 26 May buff.ly/D1GlrA8 #PolSciJobs #PoliSky #AcademicSky

So is there a hidden plan to get rid of the things the UK was perceived to be good at or respected for in other countries: universities, international development etc…what’s next?Reintroduce museum entry fees? A 6% levy on film and music? Tragic.

"In Nazi Germany, white women were awarded a bronze medal for having four children, silver for six and gold for eight children. The Nazi Party also gave out financial loans to white families; couples could have more children in order to decrease how much money they would owe back to the state."

Excellent new paper on the psychological trait of authoritarianism on political attitudes and voting 🚨

Beautiful day on campus to mark the final week of classes @uoypolitics.bsky.social

The Call for Papers for our Fall 2025 Workshop series is now OPEN! Polisky Dictatorsky To apply complete this form by May 31st: forms.gle/SvZv98ke4QUT... You can find more information here on the CfP: apsg.work/cfp/

Super afternoon recording an episode of the Politics and Pedagogy podcast, discussing the upcoming launch of @aspirenetwork.bsky.social. Big thanks to @mlebourdon.bsky.social and @ctisleeds.bsky.social for hosting. Do check out the podcast if you haven't already. rss.com/podcasts/pol...

Trump’s repression of free speech & disappearing of foreign students from campuses push academics to look for options elsewhere. Europe’s reaction? Come here! UK meanwhile? Hiking fees & cutting foreign student rights to make UK less attractive cos all that matters is lower immigration numbers 🙄

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Bremen 🚨 Open to PhD students and early career scholars Fully-funded places available for applicants, deadline 1st of May 📅 summerschoolwpm.org

Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create

To put in context how harmful this policy is for growth (and Labour) "The University of Hull generates an estimated 9,260 jobs in the Humber region and contributes £694 million to the economy in one of the most deprived parts of the United Kingdom." Source: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Great paper from great colleagues!

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The core trilma here remains the same - the govt needs to accept one of three things: high student migration, higher domestic student fees (or higher taxes to fund universities) or university bankruptcies. Those are the only options, given where we are. Pick one.

Appel à propositions pour les jeunes chercheurs qui travaillent sur les crises politiques et sécuritaires en Afrique de l'Ouest, pour un accompagnement dans l'écriture d'un article ! Deadline : le 25 avril 2025.

One month left to apply!

In a time when some EU countries are doing everything they can to attract scientists fleeing the U.S, the UK government appears comfortable seeing some the top research intensive universities collapse www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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"This measure was apparently taken by the American authorities because the researcher's phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friends in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration's research policy ," he added.

The US leadership in science and academia has created global public goods in terms of associational life, publishing, and conference infrastructure. Importantly the funding of US scientists enables teams across the world. This is not zero sum and we will all suffer if American academia suffers

New APCG Colloquium on March 25 ⬇️

"The level of democracy enjoyed by the average global person in 2024 is at levels last registered in 1985." Liberal democracy is now the least common regime type, hosting less than 12% of the world’s population. Meanwhile, autocracies are becoming more autocratic and democracies less democratic.

Friendly reminder that the APCG Online Colloquium is happening today!